Hello Natalia, sorry for my slow reply and thanks a bunch for your analysis. The spinner is intended to only "unmask" itself when there is a operation that takes a certain amount of time. The refresh is very quick so ideally it would be below this threshold.
The spinner is implemented as a "SpinnerNotebook" in ui/gtk3/widgets/spinner.py". Check the "show_spinner()" and "hide_spinner()" and "_unmask_spinner()" code there. Unfortunately it appears like the implementation is buggy and it will unconditionally switch to the notebook page with the spinner even if the operation is very quick. I think the ideal fix is to ensure that the notebook page is only changed when the timeout happens and also that the timeout id is saved in show_spinner and removed in hide_spinner if the timeout has not yet fired. The current timeout of 100ms is probably a bit low, would be nice to know if there is research data for a better one, my gutfeeling is that ~250ms - 500ms is a better default. Plus a test for this new code :) I hope this helps getting started, if there are any questions or concerns with the approach, I'm happy to talk about it on irc or mumble. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/965093 Title: the software centre flash To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/software-center/+bug/965093/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
